very solid, thick, dark quality. it really makes very little sense, as we said, when you look at what russia said yesterday about their changed priorities. it certainly doesn t fit in at all with what they have said they are going to be focusing on from the stage onwards. i think what is also worth saying, here in lviv the weather hasn t been great today, but yesterday it was a beautiful, beautiful spring day. people were out in this city, they were drinking coffee, children were playing. there were a couple of sirens yesterday afternoon and really nobody flinched at all. i was standing next to a coffee shop where people barely stopped sipping their drinks when they heard the sirens. they have been a feature here, but of course people have seen places like mariupol, places like kharkiv, these rounded by russian forces. they have seen what happened in kyiv and the suburbs there. what we are seeing here in lviv, in the far west
the fact that they felt ready to leave their country in the middle of a war, is possibly a sign of growing confidence on the part of the ukrainians. but i think there will be some quite some distance between what the ukrainians want and what the americans are prepared to give. but the ukrainians want is a nato patrolled no fly zone. they want nato to be closing the skies over ukraine. to stop the kinds of air to surface missiles, the bombs that the russians are dropping, but so far the americans are simply not going to play ball with that because they are not prepared to have nato boots on the ground controlling a no fly zone. whether the two sides came a bit closer together, we don t know at this stage. but clearly the americans are funnelling a lot of military hardware into ukraine. during ourtime in military hardware into ukraine. during our time in the east, on the ukraine border, we saw a lot of military hardware building up at the airport there. we saw military
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